Description of Columbia University. MS Or 238: Qurʼān leaves.Columbia University.These images and the content of Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 238: Qurʼān leaves. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.To the extent possible under law, Columbia University, Rare Book & Manuscript Library has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this metadata about Rare Book and Manuscript Library MS Or 238: Qurʼān leaves.. This work is published from: United States. For a summary of CC0, see https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Legal code: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode.Manuscript codex.Title supplied by cataloger.Note written on front wrapper: "Complete copy of the Koran. Manuscript. Written about 1800 A.D. Had been 99 years in the Biskra mosque, since the French occupation."New York, NY. 10027Columbia University.Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryMS Or 23813680007http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1081298883http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0032/html/ms_or_238.htmlhttps://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/13680007Leaves from a copy of the Qurʼān containing the last six words of verse 22 in Fuṣṣilat (41) to the third word of verse 22 in Dukhān (44).ArabicQurʼān leaves.former ownerSmith, David Eugene, 1860-19441r[Qurʾān leaves]
laid paper with watermarks
8 leaves : 250 x 182 (192 x 124) mm15 long lines.Written in maghribi with some imitation of kufic in black ink; pointed, vocalized.Rubrications in red: sūrah headings, readings, some vocalization. Other blue and yellow dots also appear throughout.Notation in English
Brown paper wrapper, sewn as pamphlet.
Item is undated. Likely copied in North Africa in the 18th or 19th century.
between 1700 and 1899?Morocco or Algeria?Gift of David Eugene Smith, 1931-1934.Manuscripts, ArabicQurʼansManuscripts